Build awareness of the contributions of "rube" foster to the bronzeville community, the city of chicago, and major league baseball. "rube" foster is recognized as the father of negro league baseball and was inducted into the major league baseball in 1981! bought a house in bronzeville in 1926.

As a 45 yr bears season ticket holder, i strongly suggest a free shuttle be provided from mccormick hotel/mccormick west parking garage. the lot at 31st street is not big enough especially on opening day! many of us who do not tailgate, want to park here and take advantage of the shuttle service. the acquisition of some of the old michael reese site for parking with free shuttle service to the stadium or museum campus site would be great! with the impending construction of the star wars museum, parking will be even more depleted! the cost of parking at these offsite locations should never exceed $25. this is reasonable. right now the parking rates by the stadium are out of control! as psl holders and ticket owners, we pay way too much for our tickets to have to incur $35, $40 or $45 parking.

Working with disadvantaged youth and young adults in the adjacent affordable housing developments, black metropolis convention & tourism council (bmc &tc) and our affiliate organization bronzeville visitor information center is conducting outreach efforts with residents, businesses, civic associations and educational insttitutions along the 35th street commercial business district to create the bronzeville/35th st. illinois main street program to organize and market this emerging commercial business district corridor, as a major african american oriented heritage tourism destination, anchored by the supreme life center located at the gateway to the black metropolis national heritage area, an african american patriots pavillion that connects to the new 35th bridge installation to the lakefront and the burnham wildlife corridor and millennium reserve initiative.